Chronic back pain treatment has both similarities and differences from acute back pain treatment. Chronic, by definition, is a condition that has been symptomatic for a period of time longer than three months. At my chiropractic clinic in San Diego we often see new patients who have been experiencing symptoms for years and have never received any type of structured treatment. In many cases, these patient’s pain began as an acute episode that they either ignored or simply took OTC medications (Aleve, Tylenol, Motrin, etc) which reduce the pain without addressing the actual problem – this is a typical pathway that allows an acute injury to become chronic back pain.
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